How Much Do YOU "Gain" the Morning After Carb- Heavy or Salty Meals

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  • swimmchick87
    swimmchick87 Posts: 458 Member
    Unless I've just gone crazy all day long, no more than 1-2 pounds. I actually find the biggest cause of "artificial gain" for me is lack of sleep. I struggle with insomnia, and having to be at work at 7:15 AM doesn't help. On the nights I sleep very little or not at all, I can literally weigh up to 4-5 more pounds in the morning.
  • CarvedTones
    CarvedTones Posts: 2,340 Member
    ~3 pounds and it usually comes back off within 4 days (I weigh every other day).
  • marysabetournay
    marysabetournay Posts: 69 Member
    I put on 3-4 lbs every month because of hormones...am 52 and peri-menopausal so i`m blaming it on that!! After a few weeks (2-3) it goes away and I lose an extra 1lbs or so...so as you can see, my weight loss is very sloowwww....up 3-4 lbs, down 4-5 lbs
  • jillstreett
    jillstreett Posts: 69 Member
    swimmchick87 wrote: »
    Unless I've just gone crazy all day long, no more than 1-2 pounds. I actually find the biggest cause of "artificial gain" for me is lack of sleep. I struggle with insomnia, and having to be at work at 7:15 AM doesn't help. On the nights I sleep very little or not at all, I can literally weigh up to 4-5 more pounds in the morning.

    Sleep is a BIG one for me too. If I sleep like crap or go to bed late I definitely have an unexpected high number on the scale the next morning.

    Same with other posters, I usually see that extra drop beyond the loss of the water retention too. I think now that I am nearing my goal weight (145lbs is goal and I am 5'6") as history has proved for most of us, the water weight and beyond will probably come off but just a bit slower. Darn you last 10 pounds!
  • Jackie9003
    Jackie9003 Posts: 1,115 Member
    marysabetournay wrote: »
    I put on 3-4 lbs every month because of hormones...am 52 and peri-menopausal so i`m blaming it on that!! After a few weeks (2-3) it goes away and I lose an extra 1lbs or so...so as you can see, my weight loss is very sloowwww....up 3-4 lbs, down 4-5 lbs

    I weigh daily with an app and I find this too, I'll gain 2-3lbs overnight but then it, and a bit more, comes off again slowly over the next week or so with a bigger drop just before TOM. I've started to look at monthly figures now as weekly ones make no sense.
  • happytree923
    happytree923 Posts: 463 Member
    My strategy is to eat high carb and high salt always, so I never see these fluctuations!
  • maybebeccadough
    maybebeccadough Posts: 49 Member
    My diet is predominantly carbs, so I don't really have a spike with that.

    If I eat higher quantity, or much saltier without drinking enough water, the scale will usually show 1-2lbs the next day.
  • mortuseon_
    mortuseon_ Posts: 257 Member
    I often lose weight after a day like that, and look visibly slimmer. Guess it's something to do with dehydration...

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